How much does Schatz Family Foundation give?

Schatz Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $42,074 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Schatz Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Education (17%), Environment (17%).

Who are Schatz Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Vermont Public Radio ($23k), Shelburne Museum Inc ($20k), Shelburne Farms ($20k).

Does Schatz Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Schatz Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Schatz Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Ibm International Foundation, The Blum Family Foundation.

Where is Schatz Family Foundation based?

Schatz Family Foundation is based in VT.

Schatz Family Foundation

Schatz Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Schatz Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$42k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$93kEducation$55kEnvironment$54kFood & Nutrition$32kCivil Rights$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kHousing & Shelter$8kScience & Tech$7kOther$0

02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$700k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE NATURE CONSERVATORY	$5,000
SHELBORNE FARMS	$2,500
SHELBURNE MUSEUM	$2,500
FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMANCE ARTS	$2,000
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE	$2,000
VERGENNES PARTNERSHIP INC	$1,500
VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO	$1,200
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND	$1,008
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER	$1,000
ADDISON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT	$1,000
350	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER	$1,000
NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION-VT	$1,000
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$277k · 49 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

49 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$277k

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+58%

Still filing today

59%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

SM
SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +261%
SHELBURNE FARMS
8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +50%
BU
Belmont University
6× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +86%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $5k
V
VPR
one grant, 2017 · $5k
U
USN
one grant, 2017 · $2k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture

Vermont Electric Cooperative Inc

Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture

Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vermont Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

31/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$153,664Arts & Culture$70,720Education$44,500Environment$40,480Housing & Shelter$8,000Human Services$4,800Crime & Legal$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT24.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Shayne Foundation · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · James R Meadows Jr Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Schatz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schatz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home